opinion
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Reductio ad Robot
Salaar Khan
It was bad enough that he said it the first time. It is worse, yet, that after so many months where he might have attempted to understand the other perspective, he’s only doubled down. And it’s...
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Darkness from a distance
Kamila Hyat
With time, darkness tends to fade. We forget about terrible events in our lives, our countries, around the globe – at least to some degree. But as was said for the Holocaust, the horrors of that...
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Vocational training
Parvez Rahim
In 1962, a landmark legislation laid the foundation of vocational training in Pakistan. The Apprenticeship Ordinance, 1962 was promulgated by the government of Gen Ayub Khan to feed the growing...
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Middle East: a way forward
Muhammad Farooq
The first prime minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion, confessed : “If I were an Arab leader, I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised...
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Unsuccessful PR stunt
Malia Bouattia
On June 1, Ashager Araro, an Israeli army reserve lieutenant of Ethiopian Jewish descent, released a video on Instagram captioned ‘My Zionism’. In the almost three-minute clip, Araro accuses...
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Neocolonial practices
Myriam Douo
Since the beginning of the year, the Amazon Rainforest, our largest tropical forest full of ecosystems essential to global climate regulation networks, has had 430,000 acres cleared and burned to...